I know VDS was originally meant for their CORPS system
I seem to remember there's a section in the back of VDS that says "To
use with EABA, make the following adjustments"

IIRC, EABA is less detailed than CORPS , which is a lot less detail
intensive than TimeLords 1st edition (grin)

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM,  <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello Jeffery Schwartz,
>
>
>
> What is the difference between BTRC's "VDS" (Vehicle Design System) and EABA
> Stuff?
>
>
>
> Tom R
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: "Jeffrey Schwartz" <schwartz.jeffrey@gmail.com>
> To: "tml" <tml@simplelists.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:26:18 AM
>
>
> Subject: Re: [TML] Deck plans
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Postmark <postmark.design@btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you could make it a maintenance nightmare! Minimum inter
>>> deck spaces . . .
>>
>>
>> IMTU, smaller ships have interiors which resemble the Millenium Falcon:
>> pipework and ducting wandering through the interior spaces, to the extent
>> that most deckplan squares (save for those in the cargo holds) count as
>> Difficult terrain.
>>
>
> BTRC's "VDS" (Vehicle Design System) has some neat rules for trade
> offs on volume, mass, price, etc.
> Now and then reading them, I get inspired to play with a rule along
> the lines of :
> "Volume for a component can be changed by up to 25%, with an inverse
> 10x change in maintenance time (and thus cost) and headaches"
>
> Say you take a 10% reduction, and trim your 10 dton M-drive to 9 tons.
> You'd be taking a 100% increase in maintenance time/cost - so the
> normal 4 hours a week (or what ever) becomes a full days work, and
> there's a lot of less-standard widgets that are smaller and more
> expensive that need replaced.
>
> "Yeah, the M-Drive is tight packed. Most of the work on it has to be
> done from outside the hull, and I'm talking even routine maintenance,
> not just big repairs. "   - flashback to scene of Han and Chewie
> working on the Falcon on Hoth, climbing around on the outside of the
> hull.
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